It's a shame this idea has gone out of fashion. The concept once came straight from FDR's mouth: if your business cannot afford to pay a living wage to its workers, then it should not be permitted to exist. We should not consider it a viable business, and neither should the law.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines. Regardless of which ideology you're battling for or against, we ban accounts that do this, because it destroys the intellectual curiosity HN exists for.
